Disagreement Between the FOMC and the Fed's Staff: New Insights Based on a Counterfactual Interest Rate
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Disagreement; Federal Open Market Committee; Federal Reserve Staff; Monetary Policy; Taylor Rule;All these keywords.
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- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
- E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2017-12-11 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2017-12-11 (Monetary Economics)
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